I've been addicted to youtube lately watching the debates and videos on religion
and spirituality, until i stumbled upon a video with Sam Harris and Deepak Chopra...
You might know where this is going by now.

I understand English okay... i studied it rigorously all my life through school, high school
and my current college years, ive given this language a very high priority in my life
as it's an international language and the most popular 2nd language in the
world; i studied it so much that i dare say my English is better than my Arabic,
my native tongue. But when i listen to an asshat like Deepak Chopra i can not
understand anything he says, i understand the words he uses but it's not registering
with me on any level. It's like he strings on the most amount of
big words with vague meanings and context possible...
Xtian apologists do the same but not to the same extent... maybe.
Is this some kind of weird tactic they use, to confuse the listener with language
and when you call bullshit they give themselves a lot of room to wiggle out of it,
"oh you misunderstand by 'X' i meant 'Y' and that is why bla bla bla"

Whenever i hear Hitchens or Dawkins, or even outside the atheism topic, Neil
DeGrasse Tyson speak, they deliver their points without the linguistic
masturbation, "Humans evolved gradually and separated from a common
ancestor with chimpanzees...", Apart from being clear and to the point,
and not confusing the listener, i think they are also, knowingly or not,
challenging people to call bullshit, so they can either bombard them with
facts, or retract a certain statement or word that was misplaced.

Am i reading too much into this or am i on to something here?

"Yeah, good idea. Make them buy your invisible apple. Insist that they do. Market it properly and don't stop until they pay for it." -Malleus

Deepak Chopra is known for saying lots of large words that have no meaning in the way his sentences are formed.
He's confused people into thinking that he is intelligent when all they have been trying to do is decipher his english.

Insanity - doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results

Honestly of all the theists this guy is the worst in confusing me. I guess because I don't subscribe to philosophy. Once they turn on the philosophy I start to yawn and turn off any attention I have for them at all. I have always been that way. Probably why my christian mindset didn't stick very well.

Well, I'm not going to sit here and defend Chopra because I know very little about the guy. He could very well be a tool. But I will comment on the use of language.

William Shakespeare wrote his plays 400 years ago and they're still studied and performed because he had such an incredible understanding of the human condition (he understood things hundreds of years before they were popularised, no joke) that his work is still relevant today. And I'll put money on the fact that if there are still humans here in 400 years, they'll still be reading Shakespeare. Shakespeare's language is remote and it takes some training to be able to grasp it even on a rudimentary level. But his use of language is part of the beauty and richness of his genius.

Nobody gives a fuck about text books.

There's more to the human experience than facts.

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
-William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act I Scene V.